The Dee Estuary, the Wirral peninsula and the Welsh borderlands are all within easy access. |
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The areas that have school children most likely to attend university are Trafford and Cheshire, followed by Wirral, Sefton, Stockport and Bury. |
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A GROUP of children from Belarus visiting Wirral for a month's respite will take part in a new fun run as part of their trip. |
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For regional economic planning, the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is considered part of the Liverpool City Region. |
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Many villages of the Wirral such as Burton also well preserved with their characteristic red sandstone buildings and walls. |
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The Wirral has hosted a variety of different films and television programmes. |
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Awaydays, based on a novel of the same name by Kevin Sampson, was filmed extensively in the Wirral. |
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In 2012 the movie Blood, starring Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham was filmed on the Wirral. |
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It is also believed that the Lime Pictures production Hollyoaks films occasionally, on location, in the Wirral. |
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The second series Peter Kay's Car Share also filmed at various Wirral locations including Meols and West Kirby. |
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The entrance locks at Eastham on the Wirral side of the Mersey, which seal off the tidal estuary, are the largest on the canal. |
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It can also be seen from the top end of the Wirral peninsula, between the turbines of the new Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm. |
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Impressively, the Wirral club scooped a total of 17 medals in both tumbling and acrobatic gymnastics. |
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Wirral council's Streetscene team has supplied wire brushes and paint for the scheme. |
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But author and historian Tony Franks-Buckley, co-owner of Hidden Wirral, said there were fears the entrance to the wormhole was being sealed up. |
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National Grid said just 15 properties in Moreton and Leasowe in Wirral were left to be reconnected. |
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Suspicious parents asked for a re-mark and when the error was discovered Wirral council granted the pupils their deserved grammar school places. |
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An inquest at Wirral coroner's court heard Mr Jones had worked as an apprentice lagger at Stanlow in Ellesmere Port for almost three years. |
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Ring Ouzels arrived at coastal sites such as the Great Orme, Wirral and Bardsey before heading inland to their upland summer territories. |
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A RUNDOWN and neglected Wirral play area is to get a pounds 70,000 facelift. |
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What a purple patch the area had with a bluethroat found at Leasowe, Wirral, followed by a nightingale on Hilbre. |
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It was the fight for third place between Spanish Scousers and Wirral Hornets that held the most intrigue. |
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They also said there are no public areas of Wirral where scramblers can be used, including Bidston Moss and Leasowe Common. |
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A PET owner told of the horrific moment his Shar Pei was mauled by another dog in a Wirral park. |
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And Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council were made to hand over 6,000 pounds to a school staff member who fell over a vacuum cleaner lead. |
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A GROUP of young Wirral cheerleaders are preparing to take on the world at a championships in America next month. |
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A STOLEN car was found dumped in a Wirral street shortly after crashing through a Birkenhead tunnel toll barrier. |
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I doubt if many people in Wirral are employed as domestic servants or that there is a great demand to use a steam organ. |
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Kieran Stott was given the order after Wirral council collected a dossier of offences committed by the 17-year-old around Birkenhead town centre. |
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The two 12-year-old boys, one a nonswimmer, and the men aged 75 and 45, were thrown into the water after their boat capsized and sank off Wirral. |
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The plans would see a sixth of school crossing guards lost, from areas all over Wirral. |
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If you have any photos of day trips around Wirral for our forthcoming columns, give me a call on my details above. |
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A LONG-BILLED dowitcher, from America, was found at Burton Marsh, Wirral last weekend and was next seen at Inner Marsh Farm RSPB, Wirral. |
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Officials, who have applied to Wirral council for permission to build the helipad, also claim it would be infrequently used. |
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Chris Farrell, 31, of Arrowe Park Road, Upton, Wirral, pleaded guilty to one charge of assault by beating at Wirral Magistrates Court. |
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At the flag pole outside Wallasey town hall, the Mayor of Wirral, Cllr Dave Mitchell, will take the salute. |
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Wirral is the best performing area in Greater Merseyside, closely followed by Sefton. |
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Unlike the Metropolitan area, the Urban Area does not include The Wirral or its contiguous areas. |
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The course of the river then heads north, with Liverpool to the east and the Wirral Peninsula to the west. |
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Raised on the Wirral Peninsula, Craig attended primary school in Frodsham and Hoylake, Merseyside. |
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The urban area facing Liverpool on the Wirral Peninsula is a separate division known as the Birkenhead Urban Area. |
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The river's natural course can still be determined by following the bank and low bluffs that mark the western edge of the Wirral Peninsula. |
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Northwards it forms the boundary with the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, North West England. |
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Hilbre Island, part of Wirral, straddles the mouth of the estuary at this point. |
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Flintshire is home to Shotwick Solar Park, the largest Solar array in the UK, built on the south east edge of the Wirral Peninsula. |
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In fine weather, however there are extensive views over the River Dee estuary to the Wirral Peninsula, Liverpool and beyond. |
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The city is a hub for major roads, including the M53 motorway towards the Wirral Peninsula and Liverpool and the M56 motorway towards Manchester. |
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Historically in Cheshire, it is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool. |
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During the first half of the 21st century, the Wirral Waters development is planned to regenerate much of the dockland. |
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This opened up the Wirral Peninsula for development, and prompted further growth of Birkenhead as an industrial centre. |
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Prior to 1 April 1974, Birkenhead and the rest of the Wirral Peninsula were part of the county of Cheshire. |
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The town has since been administered as part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in the metropolitan county of Merseyside. |
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The local radio station Heart Wirral is based in offices at the Pacific Road Arts Centre. |
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Services on the Borderlands Line run from Wrexham Central to Bidston on the Wirral Peninsula, crossing the North Wales Coast Line at Shotton. |
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For a period, the Mersey may also have flowed into the Dee by means of a channel which it cut through the base of the Wirral Peninsula. |
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The islands are administratively part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. |
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Wirral Council said that they had had difficulty finding a ranger prepared to live without mains electricity or running water on the island. |
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The two parts are linked by the two Mersey Tunnels, the Wirral Line of Merseyrail, and the Mersey Ferry. |
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Before the time of the Romans, the Wirral was inhabited by a Celtic tribe, the Cornovii. |
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Evidence of their occupation on the Wirral has been found, including the remains of a road near Mollington, Ledsham and Willaston. |
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The need to develop and protect the port led to a chain of lighthouses being built along the north the Wirral coast. |
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By the end of the 18th century the Wirral side of the Mersey had five ferry houses, at Seacombe, Woodside, the Rock, New Ferry and Eastham. |
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The improved communications also allowed Liverpool merchants to buy up and develop large estates in the Wirral. |
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In 1886, the Mersey Railway tunnel was opened, linking the Wirral and Liverpool. |
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This led to the further rapid growth of suburbs in the Wirral, particularly in Wallasey, Hoylake and West Kirby, and later Bebington and Heswall. |
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The site of the battle is uncertain, however, and over thirty sites have been suggested, with Bromborough on the Wirral the most favoured among historians. |
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The Mersey Estuary separates Liverpool from the Wirral Peninsula. |
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The M53 motorway runs along the length of the Wirral, from near Chester. |
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To the west of the city, the Kingsway and Queensway Tunnels connect Liverpool with the Wirral Peninsula, providing links to both Birkenhead, and Wallasey. |
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The course of the river then heads north as the estuary narrows between Liverpool and Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula to the west and empties into Liverpool Bay. |
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These are provided by larger companies whose networks of bus services in the North West of England are extensive, such as Arriva North West and Stagecoach Wirral. |
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In the year 902 Vikings who had been forced out of Ireland were given permission by the English to settle in Wirral, in the north west of England. |
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Of metropolitan areas, Trafford and most of Wirral are selective. |
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Alabama was built in secrecy in 1862 by British shipbuilders John Laird Sons and Company, in north west England at their shipyards at Birkenhead, Wirral, opposite Liverpool. |
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The Welsh name, both ancient and modern, for the Wirral is Cilgwri. |
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The English Irish Sea coast is an important area of estuaries and bird life, with Wirral being a peninsula bounded by two rivers, the River Dee and the River Mersey. |
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The river rises in Snowdonia, Wales, flows east via Chester, England, and discharges to the sea in an estuary between Wales and the Wirral Peninsula in England. |
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Of the 28 former lords of the Wirral manors listed, 12 bore Norse names. |
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Beyond Connah's Quay the river opens out into the Dee Estuary, forming the northeasternmost section of the North Wales coast and the western coast of the Wirral. |
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Towns along the coast include Flint, Holywell and Mostyn on the Welsh side and Neston, Parkgate, Heswall, West Kirby and Hoylake on the Wirral side. |
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At this time, large areas of the Wirral were owned by Chester Abbey. |
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The organisation is working with Merseytravel, the Liverpool Culture Company and Wirral council on the proposals for a set of music and light shows across the river. |
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The village and other parts of the valley were flooded to create a reservoir, Llyn Celyn, in order to supply Liverpool and Wirral with water for industry. |
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The event, which celebrated 75 years of Soroptimist International of Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral was held at St George's Hotel last Saturday. |
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Following Michael's arrival Melissa, from Moreton, Wirral, suffered from bruising and constant backache, which she thought was a result of giving birth. |
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The new Friends of Birkenhead Park temporary shop will offer visitors and locals the opportunity to buy items with images of their favourite park or place in Wirral. |
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I hope it will improve and simplify the all round provision for those young people in the excellent special schools here on the Wirral and elsewhere. |
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The 66-year-old, from Spital in Wirral, has owned the items since 1962 when she was a 15-year-old trainee comptometer operator who went to lunchtime sessions at the Cavern. |
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Carol Ambage of Windmill Gardens Beechwood Estate, Wirral, received consistent complaints about her pet, which neighbours said was aggressive and allowed to roam freely. |
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For reasons that are both social and geographical, accents on the east side of the Wirral tend to show a stronger Merseyside influence than those on the west side. |
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Areas also performing above the England average, in order of results, are Blackpool, Warrington, Wigan, Cheshire West and Chester, Bury, Cumbria, Wirral, and Stockport. |
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Bus services using the bus station operate around the town of Birkenhead, throughout the Wirral, and to the nearby city of Liverpool via the Queensway Tunnel. |
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The Wirral Line from Birkenhead travels south to Chester and Ellesmere Port, north to New Brighton and westwards, across the Wirral Peninsula, to West Kirby. |
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Lynn now plans to get a cutting from the Hillsborough Memorial Rose Garden in Port Sunlight, in the Wirral to plant in her garden as a memorial for Steve. |
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A new musical biography by Wirral songwriter Dean Johnson, called Ice Picks And Violets, aims to shed some light on what might have happened in their last moments. |
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In television, sitcom Watching, produced by Granada Television between 1987 and 1993, was partly set and filmed at various the Wirral locations, particularly Meols. |
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The course of the river then turns north as the estuary narrows between Liverpool and Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula to the west, and empties into Liverpool Bay. |
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In Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton, and Wirral Councils, there are over 35 full-time equivalent union officials, costing local taxpayers almost pounds 1 million. |
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The Ritzy in Bromborough, Wirral, shut following talks between Merseyside police and the management last year after complaints about violence and disorder. |
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